Really, stealing cameras from little girls?

He was only going to borrow it

Ay yi yi!

It was an excellent scene - quite funny because it's so naturally embarrassing to him - and very honest abot his desire for the story because of his desire for the money to get back to New York.

We are NOT meant to think of Peck and Eddie Albert as saints. They gamble, they grumble, they want OUT! Peck turns Hepburn out of the bed to use it for himself. Peck oversleeps. Peck lies to his boss the next morning about having done the story. Peck lets Hepburn believe she slept in the bed. Eddie Albert is something of a wolf. Both conspire to deceive poor Audrey throughout the day - to earn a lot of money from their bet.

They're living, breathing adult men - with flaws - not saints!

When characters do things that are quite wrong - sure, we naturally condemn them - borrowing a camera to a girl for a few minutes for something that greatly matters to him is not deeply wrong.

At the time this scene would just be considered humorous and nothing else. It's all the do-gooders and self righteous morons who have to come in and start putting modern spins on older situations.

They'll probably think it's creepy that the barber was combing the princesses hair during the dance as well.

joegerardi-1, you comment is 100% right on, and effectively written! It seems that every single time I read comments on the IMDB, somebody is bringing up some scene that smacks them of pedophilia (just yesterday I read the same thing on the forum about the movie, "Treasure Island", why Long John Silver just had to be a pedophile to go off treasure hunting with Jim!). There are people who really do have pedophilia on their brain and THAT is what is worrying (what are they projecting?).

One historical fact that so many of these people are completely unaware of was that until late in the 20th century, so-called "children" were actually functioning in the adult world even as early as the ages of 9 or 10, meaning that they were WORKING, on farms and in factories, serving as drummer boys or flag-bearers during wars, and even had businesses of their own. The longer children are kept from adult responsibilities (some now view childhood to last all the way until a person has earned a master's degree, or whenever it is that they finally stop being supported by their parents and getting their education paid for), the more society will feel that they need to be kept in a bubble and protected from every kind of "predator", "predator" merely being any kind of an adult who dares speak to them.

So much drama. Just enjoy the movie and stop obsessing over what other people think of it. Any work of art--movie, book, painting, whatever--is subject to interpretation and reinterpretation over the years. If you enjoy it, continue to do so and stop fussing over the conversations other people have.

Yes pedophilia and Misogyny is the other thing people HAVE to find in every movie every created as well. Just started reading these forums and ay yi yi yi...I'm sure this movie is misogynistic as well....